André Aciman

False Papers (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Exile and Memory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essays on memory by the author of Our of Egypt

"We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We remember because memory is our most intimate, most familiar gesture. Most people are convinced I love Alexandria. In truth, I love remembering Alexandria. For it is not Alexandria that is beautiful. Remembering is beautiful."

Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a witty, surprising series of linked essays that ponder the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374707705
• Artikelnr.: 39947940

Autorenporträt

André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

Inhaltsangabe

Alexandria: The Capital of Memory
In Search of Blue
Shadow Cities
Square Lamartine
Letter from Illiers-Combray: In Search of Proust
In the Muslim City of Bethlehem
Becket's Winter
In a Double Exile
A Late Lunch
Underground
A Celestial Omnibus
Three Tales: Pensione Eolo; Arbitrage; Counterintuition